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Marie

CHAPTER XX
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Meanwhile you will be kept in custody in your own house.

Now have you anything to say against this sentence ?" "Yes, this," I answered, "that although you do not know it, it is an unjust sentence, built up on the lies of one who has always been my enemy, and of a man whose brain is rotten.

I never betrayed the Boers.
If anyone betrayed them it was Hernan Pereira himself, who, as I proved to the General Retief, had been praying Dingaan to kill me, and whom Retief threatened to put upon his trial for this very crime, for which reason and no other Pereira fled from the kraal, taking his tool Henri Marais with him.

You have asked God to judge me.

Well, I ask God to judge him and Henri Marais also, and I know He will in one way or another.


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